39 – Abū Muḥammad al-Bazzār Qāsim ibn Hāshim narrated to us, on the authority of Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ashʿath, who said: I heard al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ. A man asked him, “Abū ʿAlī, how are you?” He replied, “What do you think of the condition of someone whose sins are many, whose deeds are weak, whose lifespan has run out, who has stored no provision for his final return, who has made no preparation for death, and for whom none of that has been made easy?”}